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Calif. lawmakers revive push to require coverage for wildfire-ready properties

Thu, 02/19/2026 - 6:22am
Previous versions of the mandate have stalled in the Legislature amid heavy industry opposition.

Olympic skiers voice concern over receding glaciers

Thu, 02/19/2026 - 6:22am
“Most of the glaciers that I used to ski on are pretty much gone,” Lindsey Vonn said.

Reform UK vows to scrap Britain’s carbon border tax

Thu, 02/19/2026 - 6:21am
Business groups warn that ditching the scheme could backfire.

EV sales boom as Ethiopia bans gas-powered car imports

Thu, 02/19/2026 - 6:20am
In the two years since the ban, EV adoption has grown from less than 1 percent to nearly 6 percent of all the vehicles on the road.

Big Tech meets Big Oil: Self-driving trucks roar into the Permian Basin

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:23am
West Texas has been a longtime cash cow for the oil industry. Now it holds promise for automated trucking companies, too.

EPA docs: 47 climate staffers reassigned

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:20am
Internal records show how the agency dispersed its climate employees under Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Emails show DHS agreed to restore canceled disaster grant program

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:19am
But the Trump administration has taken no steps to comply with a judge's order to allocate billions of dollars it withheld from local projects, Democratic attorneys general say.

Elizabeth Warren questions a company’s effort to sell flood insurance

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:17am
The Senate Democrat raised concerns after company execs visited the White House and projected the demise of government flood insurance.

Wyoming aims to boost Trump’s agenda with ‘energy dominance fund’

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:15am
Wind and solar projects would be ineligible for the program’s matching grants and loans.

Malaysia, Japan plan carbon capture project, despite climate benefit doubts

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:14am
Climate activists say carbon capture is an expensive distraction from proven emissions-reducing actions such as transitioning to renewable energy.

Start planning for catastrophic global warming, top advisers tell EU

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:13am
Europe is heading for extreme levels of warming and the EU must make detailed plans to adapt, an official report warns.

The week the EU’s climate foundations started to shake

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:13am
An assault on Europe’s most important climate law, the Emissions Trading System, took the fight against green rules to a whole new level.

Kenya launches carbon registry to boost climate finance, credibility

Wed, 02/18/2026 - 6:12am
The government says carbon markets could generate investment to support conservation, job creation and sustainable development.

Trump made it easier to build gas guzzlers. Will Detroit bite?

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:23am
The president's rollback of tailpipe regulations comes as the global marketplace shifts to electric vehicles.

‘The industry comes in and kills the work of local citizens’

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:20am
States and feds are doing little to affect data center growth. People in a Virginia county are pushing back but running into big obstacles.

Democrats launch probe into endangerment finding repeal

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:19am
Forty-one senators are accusing EPA of treating the repeal as a “foregone conclusion.”

How FEMA is affected by the shutdown

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:18am
Thousands of disaster workers remained on the job as Homeland Security funding lapsed Saturday. But states could see FEMA reimbursements stall.

Trump derides Newsom and calls his UK deal ‘inappropriate’

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:15am
President Donald Trump said the "U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum."

New Mexico Senate kills bill to codify climate targets

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:13am
Several Democrats joined Republicans to vote against the Clear Horizons Act, which was based on the governor's executive order to cut emissions in the fossil-fuel-heavy state.

West Virginia is ready to defend Trump’s climate rollback in court

Tue, 02/17/2026 - 6:12am
The state solicitor general cited West Virginia's landmark Supreme Court triumph over an Obama-era climate rule as one reason he expects EPA's endangerment finding repeal to survive legal challenge.

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